Optical cable to digital TV---lifesaver for clear music/movies

I keep discovering its continued capabilities

Price, features, and remote.

nothing worth mentioning.

...walked away from an Onkyo to buy this reciever and have never regretted it. Even the sales person said I would be back for the Onkyo. Good staging, excellent tuner and very hard to beat for the money.

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Kenwood KR-V 6050

Front panel imputs. Plenty of rear panel inputs. Good value

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Easy to hook up and use. Sounds great especially since I was taking a risk buying it. Was buying it for a second receiver for our vacation house but sich my "new" HK 525 receiver was delivered broke this has taken its place and has performed very well

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AVR-80

Price, 3 optical inputs, component video switching, fold down front panel gives unit a very clean look

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After completing numerous hours of research, I found this reciever to have numerous features (component video switching, center preamp output, 3 digital audio in's, ...) that most $350 recievers did not, let alone $219 models. The overall sound quality is suprisingly good for a reciever at this price range, and as with most A/V recievers, the 100 watt/channel is probably a little overrated, but shoudlnt be a problem if you are in this price range. I highly recomend this product to anyone that needs a highly functional, feature laden reciever for under $300.

Ease of operation and general sound quality.

The instruction manual could use some improvement and a phono stage would have been nice to have. But, I can get around those very minor issues.

This is a simple receiver to set up and operate. I looked at quite a few others but ended up with this one. Although not planned, it works quite well with the "matching" Pioneer DV-353K dvd player

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